Comparison

Drip Screen Time vs 15minutes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Drip Screen Time

This app provides a renewable screen time budget, allowing you to set limits on specific apps, websites, and categories. Once your budget is depleted, access is blocked until minutes drip back over a set interval.

Highlights
  • Renewable screen time budget
  • App and website limiting
  • Category-based restrictions
  • Customizable drip intervals
  • Blocks access when budget is zero
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Stop doom-scrolling. Drip lets you set a screen time budget. Your balance goes down as you use distracting apps and it refills over time. When it hits zero, those apps are blocked. Choose the apps, websites, and categories you want to limit. Set your max balance and how often minutes refill. Use your time. Your balance drains as you scroll. If you get blocked, take a moment away from your apps. Minutes come back on their own. DRIP PRO Upgrade to Pro for: Unlimited blocklists. Always-block schedules: fully block apps during set times, regardless of balance. Multiple warning notifications per blocklist. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

15minutes

Features
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Social media is not always the problem. Losing track of time inside it is. 15minutes gives the feed a beginning and an end. Choose the apps that tend to pull you in, use them for up to 15 minutes, and then take a one-hour break. When the hour is over, your minutes return and the cycle can begin again. Those 15 minutes are shared across your whole selection, so switching from Instagram to TikTok to Reddit does not reset the clock. You decide exactly what belongs in that selection, whether it is a social network, game, browser, or messaging app. There is no daily allowance to burn through before lunch and regret that evening. Instead, 15minutes creates a rhythm you can live with all day. The hour away gives the urge time to fade and gives something else time to begin. Closing 15minutes or restarting your phone will not bypass an active block. A BETTER PLACE TO LAND Reach for a blocked app and you will find a short, surprising fact instead of a blank screen. Browse discoveries from science, history, language, and the everyday myths many of us still believe. It turns a reflexive tap into a small moment of curiosity without reopening the feed. TIME AWAY CAN EARN TIME BACK Premium rewards the hours when you could scroll but choose not to. Each uninterrupted hour away from your selected feeds adds five bonus minutes, up to twice your usual budget. Open one of those apps and the earning streak starts over. AN EXIT THAT MAKES YOU PAUSE If you genuinely need an app before the hour is over, you can always get back in. The free version asks you to complete a 20-second breathing exercise. Premium lets you adjust the exercise or replace it with a few mental-math questions. Breathing remains available as a fallback, so you are never trapped; the brief moment of intention is the point. You can also end a session early. Any unused minutes are set aside and the one-hour break begins immediately, giving you an easy way to act the moment you realize you have had enough. ROUTINES FOR REAL LIFE With Premium, Work, Free Time, and Sleep can each have their own schedule and app list. Work and Free Time rules can also start automatically when you arrive at a saved place such as the office, gym, or home. Depending on the moment, you can block an app completely or give it a separate repeating budget. Every routine is off until you choose to set it up. PROGRESS WITHOUT MAKE-BELIEVE MATH See today’s completed breaks, your day streak, minutes used, and trends over 7, 30, or 60 days. “Time reclaimed” includes only breaks you actually kept. Unlock early and the counter stops, because progress should reflect what really happened. THE CORE STAYS FREE The 15/60 cycle, block screen, 20-second breathing unlock, progress view, and off switch are free for good. Premium adds earned minutes, the complete fact collection, custom cycle lengths, automatic routines, and more unlock options. The essential blocker itself is never held behind a subscription. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED There is no signup, login, or profile to create. Your history and settings stay on your device; only subscription billing communicates with a server. Choose your apps once, then let 15minutes hold the boundary when your attention is somewhere else. Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Drip Screen Time4 screens
15minutes4 screens

Verdict

The call

Drip Screen Time and 15minutes are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Drip Screen Time sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month and 15minutes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drip Screen Time ships an update every 2 weeks, 15minutes every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Drip Screen Time versus 15minutes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrip Screen Time15minutes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoman PisaniNikola Hack

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Drip Screen Time

Subscriptions1
  • Drip Pro$5.991 Month
3 purchases

15minutes

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Premium Subscription$1.997 Days
  • Monthly Premium Subscription$5.991 Month
  • Annual Premium Subscription$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Drip Screen Time free?
Drip Screen Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 15minutes free?
15minutes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Drip Screen Time or 15minutes have ads?
Neither Drip Screen Time nor 15minutes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drip Screen Time or 15minutes?
Drip Screen Time ships an update every 2 weeks, and 15minutes every 8 days. Most recently, Drip Screen Time was updated on October 31, 2026 and 15minutes on November 6, 2026.

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